[arch-general] Out dated packages in extra - What to do ?

[Emmanuel Benisty]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Mathieu Clabaut
<mathieu.clabaut at gmail.com> wrote:
>  what is the policy for extra out-of-date packages.
>  I'm thinking about eclipse and antlr....
>  The first one gave birth to its AUR up to date counterpart : eclipse-bin,
>  and I've got an antlr3 package at hand, but I do not want to make it in AUR
> without knowing if it is good practice.
>
>  Those package are flagged as out-of-date.
>  The bts policy is to not open bug for such a request, so as a last resort,
> I send this mail...
>
>  There was already some discussion about this problem in the end of 2007;
> see http://readlist.com/lists/archlinux.org/arch/1/6979.html
>
>  Thank you for any tip.
>
>  PS. I've seen at least one user leaving arch because of such out-dated
> packages.... (In french : http://linuxfr.org/~chicha/26802.html)
>
> -mathieu

please check http://archlinux.org/news/397/